US agency ascertains Biden as winner, lets transition begin
By MATTHEW DALY, ZEKE MILLER and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The General Services Administration ascertained Monday that President-elect Joe Biden is...
Daily COVID-19 deaths in US reach highest level since May
By DAVID CRARY and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press
The surging coronavirus is taking an increasingly dire toll across the U.S. just as a vaccine...
CDC begs Americans not to travel for Thanksgiving
By MIKE STOBBE and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — With the coronavirus surging out of control, the nation’s top public health agency...
Texas inmates work in morgue as COVID-19 overwhelms El Paso
By Alana Rocha, Texas Tribune
The morgue in El Paso is so overwhelmed by the number of people dying from COVID-19 that inmates from the...
Texas surpasses 20,000 virus deaths, second highest in US
By ACACIA CORONADO Report for America/ Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas surpassed 20,000 confirmed coronavirus deaths Monday, as COVID-19 continues to surge in...
Texas becomes 1st state to surpass 1 million COVID-19 cases
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas has become the first U.S. state with more than 1 million confirmed COVID-19 cases as the nation continues to...
Supreme Court justices appear ready to uphold Obamacare
By David G. Savage and Noam N. Levey Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices on Tuesday sounded ready to uphold the Affordable Care...
Alex Trebek, ‘Jeopardy’ host and trivia master, has died at 80
By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek died Sunday after battling pancreatic cancer for nearly two years. He...
Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided US
By JONATHAN LEMIRE and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the...
Democrats’ hopes of flipping Texas again fall short
By Emma Platoff, Texas Tribune
Some thought it might happen as early as 2014 — and then 2016, and, of course, in 2018.
When all those...